. >> reporter: 61-year-old george jebour has never seen things this bad, telling us they're now experiencingtranslator: i and all the lebanese people have never experienced such a difficult economic situation. no medicine, no electricity. >> reporter: his son ilid just graduated from university last year and has spent months searching for a job. >> out of around 100 students in my civil engineering, my age from american university, i think maybe one or two got jobs, and the rest are looking for either master's or they are still unemployed. >> reporter: over 30% of the lebanese workforce is now out of a job, and between the power outages and the cost of living, elie says many of his friends and family believe life in beirut is becoming unbearable. >> they are trying to fight with whatever is remaining. they are losing money by the day. there's no middle class anymore. the middle class has become poor. and i think they lost hope in this country. >> reporter: for dr. seblani, she's seeing the same challenges at work in the hospital. >> the power cuts in lebanon, of course in the hospital as wel